I admit I am a sucker for the Buddhist philosophy that we are all interconnected. It collides with my susceptibility to chaos physics, through which we learn that if a butterfly flaps his wings on one end of the world, it can affect the tides thousands of miles away. In other words, both the physical world and the spiritual world tell us we are interconnected, whether we like it or not. Even in chaos, there is patterning. So it is ridiculous to pick an echo chamber and live in it as though we were right and the others are wrong.

I was reminded of this when I decided to read my friend, Denise Hamilton’s book, Indivisible.